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Kuala Lumpur Radio interview on Art (Part 1)

Natalya bronzova discusses her art creations, motivation and inspiration. She also discusses the position of art as elitist in society and gives her views on famous artists who have inspired her. Her final notes are suggestions for young artists stating out their career!

Natalya bronzova discusses her art creations, motivation and inspiration. She also discusses the position of art as elitist in society and gives her views on famous artists who have inspired her. Her final notes are suggestions for young artists stating out their career!

The best paintings are those, which you are never tired to look at; one must have the urge to want to live in the reality that the artist created on the canvas. Many times I heard people saying that they wanted to go inside my canvases, to experience that dream reality which I created... This is highest compliment for me as an artist. My paintings are very much influenced by history, legends and my own dreams, based on history knowledge. I was able to create my own style, which is not easy in our modern world when every possible style and media has been expressed! I did nothing on purpose to be different from other artists. It happens naturally because I simply splash my feelings on canvas.

This is an interview with the Director General of National Visual Arts Gallery of Malaysia Mr. Haned Bin Masjak. He is the one who not only organized and got approval for this project, but he also personally cared for the every day needs of the artists. Sir Haned every day visited our workshop, not only to see the artworks creating process or supply different materials, but to check on catering, food quality, transportation and so on...

This beautiful woman with aristocratic presence, has long become a legend in the classic music world. Ingrid Sala Santamaria… Even her name sounds like music! It is impossible to imagine her fate without music, she is so filled with it, that it seems she breezes notes, not air... In the Ayala Museum Ingrid performed concertos by Tchaikovsky and Schumann, which she played with the Manila Symphony Orchestra.

This is the best orchestra of the Philippines, sixty instruments creating a rich tapestry of feelings, as a background for her solo piano...

A meeting with 20th Century legend, Imelda Romualdez Marcos, is always quite an event! I wanted to learn by myself who was the real personality behind all the chatter and gossip. I was happy to find a very charming, noble, and good-natured woman of high moral standards. I found an honest person who's sole objective in life was to bring truth, good and beauty to the world! I was always interested in the personality of Imelda Marcos.

I wanted to understand her global vision and the secret of such a powerful personality. She thinks very differently than the ordinary people who judge her. And because her mind is limitless, all her life she lived in a world of great possibilities. She influenced the world, because she loved it and embraced it all, so the entire world belongs to her!

Maria Joceline Bilasano is a healer, spiritual teacher and a very educated modern woman. She founded the Academy of Wholistic Healing Arts. Her gift of healing emerged about 16 years ago. She has changed her own life, healed herself and since then she has dedicated her life to the Holy Spirit.

Maria has a Russian soul; she loves Russia very much and spends there nearly half of her time. The interview was very interesting and covered many aspects. Maria was open and talked with so much inspiration. I'm sorry, it was not possible to put here the whole interview. You read here, only what Maria felt was important.

When I asked Ester for an interview, I had very specific questions I wanted her to answer. Throughout the interview, she kept such an inspired, pure and spiritual stance and charmed me by her childlike movements and fascinating memories. Ester seems very young, almost a girl. Maybe because she managed to keep her soul innocent. She is a very humble person in everyday life and does not like to talk about herself. During the conversation, Ester joked, laughed and talked very vividly, with such emotions.

After getting to know Ester, you quickly realize that being chosen by God is not only a privilege, but a very heavy burden, that she carries with ease and dignity. You also realize that although she makes it look simple, it is really the result of hard work and many hours of prayers... Few would be able to carry this heavy burden with such dignity! Divine energy fills her face, as if she would be lit from within, you can almost sense it!

Virgilio Gutierrez is a wonderful and charming person. He is in his seventies, but his expressions are that of a child. He is not tall, thin, with very piercing eyes... Three dogs and two dozen parrots surround him... When you stand next to him a state of peace overwhelms you, which somehow brings you back to your childhood.

I visited him with my friends Gregory and Olga, in Quezon City (Manila). His home was very difficult to find with no street indications... Instead of a wall and door, his front entrance is a green metal latticework, leading into two small rooms; in the room where he welcomes his visitors are cages with noisy parrots, covering the whole wall, chattering and throwing grain on the floor. As we sit with him, his dogs come and sleep at his feet. On the wall opposite the parrots are various pictures and several Orthodox icons, gifts from Russian visitors; he told us he liked them so much for their beauty. In the next room is an altar with a statue of the Virgin Mary and an oak table for "healings," a gift of one Russian, who was cured by Virgilio